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handmade intelligence
@sweetjennya.bsky.social
artist 🪷 stained glass & other stuff
Angeleno w/Mississippi roots living in the Rockies
I like trees, pastries, and sustainability
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the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Hoarding disorder but add a little bit of elitism
The top 10% of U.S. households hold 87% of all stocks, nearly 85% of private businesses, and 44% of real estate assets, per Ritholtz.
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy Armistice Day.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Happy Veteran’s Day. My dad passed away last year due to complications caused by injuries he sustained in the Vietnam War. Thank a veteran and hug your dads.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The U.S. spends $13.6 billion every year locking people up who haven't even been convicted of a crime.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Hello. Let us imagine our wildest dreams (complementary) instead of marching unbidden towards our literal nightmares
If yesterday taught us anything, it’s that you don’t know what’s viable or what’s possible til you at least try. We actually don’t have to take what we’re given. If enough of us get together and touch and agree we can do, create, and have better.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Mississippi state legislature begs to differ. 😏
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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it’s never been more important to be clear eyed and resolute in your morals and ethics
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ready for tonight
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Seriously!

That's why the first 4 amendments to the Constitution are:

-We'll say whatever the fuck we want

-We get to have fucking guns

-Stay the fuck out of our houses

-No, really, stay the FUCK out of our houses
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
America... boy, I dunno.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Don’t turn away from what he’s doing. He’s making America over into his own ugly, hideous self

Don’t look away
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Human rights really are one of few things in life that is truly black and white; you either support human rights or you don't. The minute you make exceptions for certain countries or caveats for bigotry, you no longer believe in human rights.
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As an homage to my father (rip) I will be roasting a chicken and watching the World Series tonight
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Moving and memorial planning simultaneously is something I don’t recommend but maybe doubling up stressful life events means double the relaxation later but jk most of the next two months will be traveling
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Coincidence or not, that’s pretty crazy.

(via MS desk)

@dkthomp.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X.

At least we can share it freely here. Please do.

More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Just a reminder that the bar exam replaced apprenticeships in large part because of racism, even though the data said apprenticeships produced better lawyers.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Once again kind of funny how different the contemporary ultra-left is from the classical far left. Communists, socialists, and anarchists of 100 years ago literally believed the LAWS OF HISTORY DICTATED that “we are going to win.”

Today it’s all “boot on our face forever” all the time
I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism

www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...
“Resistance can be joyful” • Oregon ArtsWatch
Portland protest artists on creativity, resilience, inflatable frogs, and protecting the soul of the city.
www.orartswatch.org
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM